Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

On Aug 20, 8:40 am, Robert Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> I doubt it, unless those enterprises will pump a lot of money into the
> SeaMonkey project, which currently only consists of a very dedicated,
> but still way too small group of volunteers that only have their free
> time to spend and need to live from doing something completely unrelated
> to SeaMonkey. As long as that doesn't change, I don't see anyone in the
> SeaMonkey project having time to care about anything any "enterprise"
> wants. Firefox has more people working on "enterprise" issues than
> SeaMonkey, and I don't see that change.

Firefox has more people working on everything. For all the people
working on enterprise aspects in Firefox, what's being accomplished?
Minimal changes, no doubt. If it were something more structural, which
is what enterprises want, the "for the masses" aspect would be
undermined. There are severe limits on how far Firefox can go to
support enterprise.

As far as investment goes...

Someone reading your post is liable to come off as seeing the
SeaMonkey project on the verge of collapse, and that investment in it
is a risky endeavor, whether you intended to cast it that way or not.
I, and I'm sure many others, some of them vocal, see the opposite.
Investment into enterprise Firefox is the risky one. If someone is
looking for the type of innovation that comes with the shared backend
of Firefox and SeaMonkey, and Firefox can't fit their bill, then all
the more reason to invest in SeaMonkey. But that's only if you're one
of the enterprises that cares about innovation. If you aren't, then
heck, maybe IE is what you want; it's too big to fail.